You should be able to get the information from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns or other systems views, say, sys.Columns in SQL Server.

>Thanks Bonnie,
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>Interesting though. If you can define anything (decimal places) in the database environment, you should be able to retrieve it one way or another no?
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>If I remember correctly, "decimal places" is supported by standard SQL no?
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>It's probably me.
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>Thanks and kind regards,
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>Marc
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>PS : I totally agree that decimal places is not a storage but a formatting issue. Is it blasphematory then to want to define formatting at the DB level?
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